Story about Pres. Trump firing Dearborn judge is satire, not fact

A story about President Donald Trump firing 22nd District Federal Court of Appeals Judge Hansam al Alallawalahi-Smith after he instituted Sharia Law in Dearborn is entirely untrue.

Neither the court nor the judge exist.

A nearly identical story was posted on another satire site about a year ago, but with a different judge’s name.

Sharia or Islamic law is the highest law according to the Quran and the tenets of Islam.

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The satirical story said the judge ruled it OK for a man to abuse his wife if she “were to act on her impulses,” or even if she talked to another man.

“Our usual tactic is not to comment on false news,” Dearborn’s Director of Public Relations Mary Laundroche said. “We don’t really like to talk too much about our efforts to counter that.”

She said her department, and the city in general, chooses not to talk about it most of the time, because using the words “Dearborn” and “Sharia Law” in the same breath, even to say it isn’t true, often does the exact opposite.

“It’s a difficult thing,” she said. “We always want people to have a clear understanding of our wonderful community.”

She said this case was “very odd” that the same story was posted on two “obscure” and virtually unknown websites.